First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Florida is home to some of the oldest Pleistocene and Colonial period archaeological sites in the Americas. This rich record demonstrates that past Floridians actively engaged with major long-term environmental shifts, hurricanes, and neighboring cultures in nuanced and complex ways that were accentuated by the arrival of European populations. However, Floridian archaeology is challenging due to poor organic preservation, poor separation of components, poor site visibility, and modern site destruction from looting, development, and sea level rise. Further, much of the early cultural record was submerged offshore by the more than 130m of sea level rise from approximately 21,000-5,000 years ago, meaning that we know little about how early people may have used the coasts. New methods of modeling and analysis hold great promise for mitigating these challenges and providing insight about how past Southeasterners lived and adapted to their changing worlds. The archaeologists in this session ask new questions of curated assemblages, analyze and interpret materials from recent excavations, and use new methods and techniques to shed light on some of Southeastern archaeology's most enduring problems.

Other Keywords
Historic • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Material Culture and Technology • Lithic Analysis • Geoarchaeology • Historical Archaeology • Underwater Archaeology • Zooarchaeology • Paleoethnobotany • Ceramic Analysis

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Delaware (State / Territory) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Tennessee (State / Territory) • North Carolina (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • West Virginia (State / Territory) • Virginia (State / Territory) • South Carolina (State / Territory)

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  • An Analysis of Garbanzo Bean Remains at Mission San Luis de Talimali (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Townsend.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Were garbanzo beans grown at San Luis de Talimali or were they imported? Were they able to be cultivated at all in a Floridian climate? Who cooked with the beans- just the wealthy Spanish who imported them or anyone with a garden? What was their dietary importance? Garbanzo beans were a staple of the Spanish diet, and were one of...

  • At What Expense? An Expended Utility Study of Bolen Projectile Points in Northern Florida (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin Cross.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Schott and Ballenger’s (2007) work analyzing the expended utility of Dalton bifaces looked at the difference between the potential utility of an artifact and its residual utility to understand the use-wear and resharpening processes that shaped the artifact, and applied their findings to reconstructing the population-level use of...

  • It’s the Faunal Countdown! Analysis of Faunal Remains from the 2017 Excavations at the Ryan-Harley Site, Wacissa River, Florida (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wilson. Jessi Halligan.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2017, the Florida State University underwater field school conducted excavations of the middle-Paleoindian Ryan-Harley site (8JE1004) in the Wacissa River in northwest Florida. These excavations recovered significant faunal remains from three one-meter units in association with lithic artifacts, potentially representing a...

  • Looking beyond the Mission: Insights from a Multicomponent Site (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Walker. Tanya Peres.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I will present an analysis of historic material recovered during the systematic auger survey conducted within the ravine and the excavation of a 20th century tenant house located on the San Luis site. There will be discussion regarding the cultural material contents from these two locations, as well as comparing them to all other...

  • Paleostorms and Precolonial Societies: Hurricane Deposits in Inundated Archaeological Sites in Northwest Florida (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How people respond to their environment is an ongoing theme in archaeological research. However, it is not well understood how people in the past responded to rapid high energy events such as hurricanes and if planning for these events did or did not occur. To understand how hurricanes affected people in the past, we need to...

  • Social Significance of Glass Beads at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4) (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laylah Roberts.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do the number and type of glass beads found in the structure recovered from FSU’s 2018 field school at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4) differ from other Spanish living structures on the site? And what do these beads (especially the special decorated types, such as Cornaline d’Aleppo or striped beads) tell us about the social...

  • Supply and Demand: Colonoware Creation and Spanish Ideals at San Luis de Talimali (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Bruin.

    This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonoware is a type of ceramic frequently recovered from Spanish Colonial period sites in North America. Often colonoware is considered evidence of technological acculturation and Spanish- Native American interactions on the Spanish colonial frontier. The demand for ceramics outpaced the available supply and thus local...